Light in Your Eye

Nineteen years ago today, Freddie Mercury died, which is why I write tonight. It’s cold outside right now; cold is silver, like shining silver. I transmit from a cottage in Republican country. My son came home from school the other … Continue reading →

Analog!

So Many Words So Little Time

In 2003, the New Yorker wrote a quirky little piece about Irving Tobin, a man who reads the New York Times from front to back every day. At the time, he was 18 months behind, so for him, the past … Continue reading →

Pank’s Romantic

I have a dirty little secret. It’s raunchy. It’s delicious and I love every single minute of it.       I’m a reader… ok so that fact isn’t necessarily a secret. PANK is a literary magazine… which involves a … Continue reading →

FWD: October Grants & Awards

*October 1* *The Gatewood Prize In Poetry. Switchback Books announces a call for entries for the Gatewood Prize in poetry, an annual competition for a first full-length collection of poems by a woman writing in English between the ages of … Continue reading →

Web 2.0 grief debate

What has the web become? Early on the web was used as a vehicle for transmission of information from one source to another not unlike transmission based modes of instruction like the lecture. But now it has become something much … Continue reading →

Unicorns, bunnies, and happy rainbows…

…that’s what PANK is thinking right now.